Six years after his settlement in Sumter County he was chosen its representative to the legislature.
If the Sumter were only in Bahia, where the Florida afterward was, how easily and securely the kicking might be done?
It had only been a week since the Sumter had run the blockade of New Orleans, and already she was out of fuel!
Although the distance from Sumter to Aiken was only about 135 miles, the railway trains took seventeen hours to make the distance.
"You see how wretchedly nervous she continues," said Mrs. Sumter.
